Nuclear

Radioactive

No

Media

Description

Soft, malleable, blue-white metal.

Uses

Used in nickel-cadmium batteries. Also in electroplating steel and in the manufacture of berings. Its compounds are found in paint pigments and a wide variety of intense colors. Boiling cadmium gives off a weird, yellow-colored vapor that is poisonous.

Sources

Obtained as a by product of zinc refining.

Pronounciation (English)

KAD-me-em

Translations

Afrikaans

Kadmium

Aragonese

Cadmio

العربية

كادميوم

Armãneashte

Cadmiumu

asturianu

Cadmiu

azərbaycan dili

Kadmium

български

Кадмий

বাংলা

ক্যাডমিয়াম

brezhoneg

Kadmiom

bosanski

Kadmij[um]

Byelorussian

Кадмій

Cebuano

Cadmyo

čeština

Kadmium

Chuvash

Кадми

Cymraeg

Cadmi

dansk

Cadmium, Kadmium

Deutsch

Kadmium

Ελληνικά

Καδμιο

English

Cadmium

esperanto

Kadmio

español

Cadmio

eesti

Kaadmium

euskara

Kadmioa

فارسی

کادمیم

suomi

Kadmium

føroyskt

Kadmium

français

Cadmium

furlan

Cadmi

West-Frysk

Cadmium

Gaeilge

Caidmiam

Gàidhlig

Caidmiam

galego

Cadmio

ગુજરાતી

કૅડમિયમનો

Gaelg

Cadmium

Hakka Chinese

Kak (鎘)

עברית

קדמיום

हिन्दी

काडमियम

hrvatski

Kadmij

magyar

Kadmium

հայերեն

Կադմիում

Indonesia

Kadmium

íslenska

Kadmín

italiano

Cadmio

日本語

カドミウム

ქართული

კადმიუმი

کٲشُر

Kadm

қазақ тілі

Кадмий

한국어

카드뮴

Kurdish

Kadmiyûm

Komi

Кадмий

kernewek

Cadmyum

кыргызча

Кадмий

Latin

Cadmium

Lëtzebuergesch

Kadmium

Lombard

Càdmi

lingála

Kademu

lietuvių

Kadmis

latviešu

Kadmijs

Mari

Кадмий

Maori

Cadmium

македонски

Кадмиум

മലയാളം

കാഡ്മിയം

монгол

Кадми

Мокшан

Кадми

Bahasa Melayu

Kadmium

Malti

Kadmju[m]

Nahuatl

Cadmio

Nederlands

Cadmium

norsk

Kadmium

Occitan

Cadmi

ирон

Кадмий

polski

Kadm

português

Cádmio

Runasimi

Kadmiyu

română

Cadmiu

русский

Кадмий

slovenčina

Kadmium

slovenščina

Kadmij

Samoan

Kadmimi

Samogitian

Kadmis

shqip

Kadmium

српски

Кадмијум

Southern Sotho

Kadmiamo

svenska

Kadmium

Kiswahili

Kadimi

தமிழ்

கட்மியம்

Tajik

Кадмий

ไทย

แคดเมียม

Türkçe

Kadmiyum

ئۇيغۇرچە

كادمىي

українська

Кадмій

o‘zbek

Kadmiy

Tiếng Việt

Catmi, Cađimi

Võro

Kaadmium

中文

鎘

History

Discovered In

1817

Discovered By

Friedrich Strohmeyer

Discovered At

Germany

Word Origin

Somewhat confusingly, from the Latin word "cadmia" meaning "calamine" (zinc carbonate, ZnCO3) and from the Greek word "kadmeia" with the same meaning.